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Sunday, April 7, 2013

AND THEN I FOUND YOU: A NOVELKate Vaughan is no stranger to tough choices.She’s made them before. Now it’s time to do it again.

Kate
has a secret, something tucked away in her past. And she’s getting on
with her life. Her business is thriving. She has a strong relationship
with her family, and a devoted boyfriend whom she wants to love with all
her heart. If Kate had ever made a list, Rowan would fill the imagined
boxes of a perfect mate. But she wants more than the perfect on paper relationship;
she wants a real and imperfect love. That's why, when Kate discovers
the small velvet box hidden in Rowan's drawer, she panics.

It
always happens this way. Just when Kate thinks she can love, just when
she believes she can conquer the fear, she’s filled with dread. And she
wants more than anything to make this feeling go away. But how?

When
the mistakes have been made and the running is over, it’s time to face
the truth. Kate knows this. She understands that a woman can never undo
what can never be undone. Yet, for the first time in her life she also
knows that she won’t fully love until she confronts those from her past.
It’s time to act.

Can she do it? Can she travel to the place where it all began, to the one who shares her secret? Can the lost ever become found?

And Then I Found You gives
new life to the phrase “inspired by a true story.” By traveling back
to a painful time in her own family’s history, the author explores the
limits of courage, and the price of a selfless act.

What I loved: The letter in the beginning explains how this book was inspired by real life events and I didn't even make it past the first couple of sentences before the tears started! And Then I Found You is a beautifully written, heart-wrenching story of love, loss, tough choices and new beginnings. I enjoyed the rich setting and the engaging characters who are faced with impossible decisions but who ultimately discover the blessing amidst the pain when life comes full circle.

What left me wanting:Nothing.

Final verdict:Prepare to be hit right in the feels with this one.

About the Author:

Patti
Callahan Henry is a New York Times Bestselling novelist. She has
published nine novels (Losing the Moon, Where the River Runs, When Light
Breaks, Between the Tides, The Art of Keeping Secrets, and Driftwood
Summer, The Perfect Love Song, Coming up for Air and the upcoming And
Then I Found You --April 2013, St. Martins Press). Patti has been hailed
as a fresh new voice in southern fiction, appearing in numerous
magazines (Good Housekeeping; SKIRT; The South; Southern Living, etc..).
She has been short-listed for the Townsend Prize for Fiction. She has
been nominated four different times for
the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Fiction Novel of the Year. Her
work is published in five languages and all novels are on Brilliance
Audio. Two of her novels were OKRA picks and Coming up For Air was an
Indie Next choice. Patti is a a frequent speaker at fundraisers, library
events and book festivals, discussing the importance of storytelling.
Her next novel, AND THEN I FOUND YOU, will be released on April,
9th, 2013 by St. Martins Press. Patti Callahan Henry is a full time
writer, wife and mother of three living in Mountain Brook, AL.